Quotes About Nostalgia

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

We listen to oldies when we go on tour. Beach Boys radio was really clutch; that was definitely our favorite Pandora station.

My big brother listened to classic rock, and I grew up listening to a classic rock station called KSHE.

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big '70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang 'Da Do Ron Ron' to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.

Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

In my house, we couldn't listen to 'Love to Love You Baby.' It was way too salacious back in the day. I remember my mom would turn the station off when that song came on the radio. But, of course, I played my album to death in my bedroom, with the door closed.

My Pandora station is Boyz II Men.

I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.

There are a lot of things that I remember about Dusty Rhodes. There are so many things that stick out about him. He used to work at my father-in-law's gas station pumping gas.

When I was young, airports were quite a nice place to be - people put nice clothes on to fly - but now it is like a bus station. It is horrendous.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.

I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.

I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'

I listened to oldies radio stations as a kid; lots of Kinks and Beatles and '50s hits.